Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-09-28

- "uSiieS VIII ule ana their boy!
VIII get possession of the business, anC
WITH q cigar in their mouth, and full to tn,
cum with the best liquor, and behind {
paiS OF spanking bays, they will pass every
'uIng on the turnpike road TO rempOra
ana eternal psrdi.iuU. Then the bushes.
VIII hreak up, and the smaller dealers viii
nave lair opportunity. Or the spirit o.
contentment aud right feeling will tax,
possession OF the large firm, as recently il
ehe case OF the great house OF A. A Low 4
Co and the firm will say: We have
enough money for all our needs, and thu
neeIs oil u children; now let US dissolve
business and
MAKE WAY FOK OTHER MEN
IN the same line" Instead OF being
startled at a solitary instance Of magma.
nlmlty, a. in the case Just mentioned. il
VIII become a common thing. l know OF
scores OF great business houses that have
nAd their opportunity of vast accumula-
t'on' n who ought to quit. But per
maps tor al the days OF this generation the
struggle OF small houses to keep alive I'M
der the OYer-shadOwing pressure of great
houses will continue, therefore, taking
things "a they are. you will be wise to pre-
serve your equilibrium, and your honesty,
ana your faith, and throw over all the
counters, and shelves, and rice casks, the
measuring line of divine right. "And the
Lord said unto me, Amos, what sest thou?
and l said, A plumb line"
In the same way we need 10 measure our
theclOgles. All sorts of religions are pat
ting forth their pretensions. Some have a
S~piritualistic religion, and their chief
work Is with ghosts, and others a religion
OF political economy, propOsinS to put an
eud to human misery by a new style of
taxation; and there is q humanitarian re.
lglOn that looks after the body of men
and lets the soul look after itself; and
there Is a legislative religion that proposes
10 rectity all wrongs by enactment of bet
ter laws; and there Is an aesthetic religion
that By rules OF exquisite taste would lift
the heart out OF It's defOrmities: and relig-
ions OF all sorts, religions by the peck, re-
ligions by the square foot, and religions by
the ton-all Of them devices OF the devil
that would take the heart away from the
only religion that will ever effect ANYTHING
for the human race, and that is the straight
up-and-dOwn religion written in the book,
which begins with Genesis and ends with
Revelation, the religion OF the skies, the
old religion, the GOd-giyen religion, the
everlasting religion, which says: Love
God above all and your neighbOr as your,
self All religions but the one begin at
the wrong end and IN the wrong place.
The Bible religion demands that We first
get right with God.
IT REGISS At THE TOP
and measures down, while the other reli.
giOnS begin at the bottom and try to meas.
ure up. They stand atthe foot of the wall,
up to their knees in the mud Of human
theory and speculation, and have "a plum,
met ami q string tied fist to il. And they
throw the plummet this way, and break 4
head there, and throw the plummet an,
other way, and break n head there, and
then they throw il up, and then they throw
it up and il comes down upon their OWL
pate. Fools Why will you stand at the
foot Of the wall measuring up when you
ought to stand at the top measuring down
4 few days ago | was IN the country
thirsty after q long walk. And | came in
and my child was blowing soap bubbles
and they rolled out OF the cup, blue, ant
gold, and green, aud sparkling, aud beau
tItul, and 0rbjcuiIr, and in SO small {
space | never saw moro spiendOr concen
trated. But she blew once too often, and all
the glory vanished into suds. Then | turned
and took q glass Of plain water, aud was
refreshed. Aud 50 tar "a soul thirst is
concerned, l put against ali the glowing
glitteriag Sosp-buhhlrS OF worldly reform
and human speculation, one draught IRON
the fountain from under the throne ct God
clear as crystal. Glory he - God tor thu
religion that drops from above, not c0mipE
M from beneath and the Lord sale
unto me, Amos, what seGst thOu2 and
said, 4 plumb line.
| want you 10 notice this fact, tina.
when a man CIV, 5 up the straight up-and
down religion in the Bible for any new
tangled religion, it - generally to suit hr
sinS. YOu tirst hear Of his change of re
liglOn, and then you hear of some swindl'
ice has praCticed IN Colorado mining stock
telling some one that if he will put in tel
thousand dollars he cIn take ont . hand
red thousand, or he has sacrificed hi
chastity, or plunged into irremedlable
worldlineSs. His sins are so broad he Ia
TO BROADEN HIS RELIGION,
and he becomes rs broad rs temptation, a
broad rs the souls darkness, rs broad a
hell. They want Il religion that will al
low them to keep their sins, and then a
death say to them: We'll done, good anC
faithful servant and that tells them
"AlI is well for there is no hell" Wha
u glorious heaven they hold before MS
Come, let US 90 in and see it. There |
Herod and all the babes no massacred
There is Charles G%uitcau, and Jim Fiske
and R~obespierre, the friend of the Frencl
rmillotine, and all the liars, thieves, house
burners, garrOters, picE-pOckets and hber
tines of all the centuries. They have nj
yot crowns, and thrones, and harps, ant
sceptres, and when they chant they sing
THANKSGIVING, and honor, and glory, ant
power to the Broad Religion that let u
all into heaven without repentance ant
faith in those ~disgraceful dOgmas of eccle1
astical old-fGgyism.'
NV text gives me a grand Opportunity q
saving a useful word to all young men VIII
are now forming habits for a lifetime. q
what use to Il StOnemason or a brlcElaye
is a plumb line2 Why not build the wal
by the uuaided eye and hand9 Becaus
they are insufficient, because II there De
detection in the wall it cannot further al
he corrected. Because by the law ol gravl
tation q wall must be straight in order t
he symmetrical and safe. 4 young ma
Is in danger of getting a defect IN his wal
ofrcharacter that may never he corrected
One of the best friends | ever had died @
/, delirium tremeus at SIXTY years Of aye
though he had not since twenty-One year
I, of age-before which he had been disSl
uated-touched Intoxicating liquor unit
! that particular ]carOuSal that took him of
Not feeling we'll in 4 street on a hot sum
mer day, he stepped into a drug store, JUS
as YOU and | would have done, and asket
/ for dose of something to make him fee
better. And there was
ALCOHOL IN II DOSE,
and that one drop aroused the old appe
lite. and he entered the first liquor store
and STAYED there until thoroughly unde
the power of rum. He entered his hom
a rsving manaic, his wife aud daughter
fleeing from his presence, until he wa
- 20 tho CITY h%osnital Ia die, TIL